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The notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation is … addressed. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules, with the objective … innovation and returns to scale. We derive conditions for optimal diversity under different regimes of returns to scale …
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automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …
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&D, innovation and economic performance, considering the impact of innovation of export success. We develop a simultaneous three … dynamics of innovation and export performance: first, the capacity of firms to translate their R&D efforts in new products …; second, the role of innovation as a determinant of export market shares; third, the export success as a driver of new R …
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. Equity is a preferable source of external finance for innovation than debt. It does not require collateral, does not …
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include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …
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This paper studies the empirical relation between market competition and innovation using Luxembourg's Structural … on the idea of cost-efficiency. From this, the paper analyses the relation between competition and innovation performance … relation between competition and innovation is non-linear and depends crucially on the efficient use of inputs to production …
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between R&D, innovation output and productivity. We propose a model specification that, among other features, aims to better … capture the variance component of the cooperation and obstacles to innovation variables. Results based on Finnish CIS data …
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Innovation Research (SBIR) program, of which 624 had been discontinued prior to technical completion, we provide for the first …
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with external networks together enhance the probability that firms engage in product and process innovation. Following … data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2006-08. In order to control for potential endogeneity of the external …-owned firms which engage in backward networking for product and forward networking for process innovation while also undertaking R …
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option of selling to an incumbent increases innovation incentives for entrepreneurs when network effects are strong and … necessarily restrict innovation incentives. We also show that network effects promote acquisitions over entry and that the … entrepreneur has strong incentives to invest in the initial user base of the innovation. …
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